Irish dancers take solace from ‘extra precautions’ at Killarney competition

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Irish dancers take solace from ‘extra precautions’ at Killarney competition
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Additional judges introduced to reassure dancers after competition-fixing allegations

‘There’s too much talk about menopause? We’re just making up for the last 20 goddamn years when women suffered in silence’

The numbers competing in the senior ladies competition – over the age of 21 but with no upper limit – have increased in the past decade with150 competing in Killarney.She said dancing helped her to focus. “It grounds you,” she said. “Mentally it’s good for you.” She said some acquaintances had advised her to walk away from dancing. “It’s not that easy,” she said. “With older dancers, we just like to dance. We just want to dance.”

Some availed of a treatment reportedly popular with Tipperary hurlers. For €20, competitors could aid recovery by wearing Niall O’Farrell’s “wellness and recovery” air pump boots, which push blood from the bottom to the top of the leg. Nenagh-based O’Farrell is more accustomed to treating GAA players but was “busy all week” and is now considering travelling to the World Championships in Montreal in April.

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